It’s been a while dear readers. I’ve had a lion’s share of my time taken by the arrival of my second offspring. But I’m here now to serve some music goodness.

I’ve found some wonderful examples of instrument making gone amok (much of it having to do with scale, hehe). For instance a real playable tiny grand piano or a giant accordian. If the size of an instrument is important to you, you might be interested to put something that is 36 inches to your mouth. If that’s not enough for you this one is 41 inches and requires two people to blow it. Still want more? Here’s a horn that needs 6 midgets to blow it.

There’s also the freaky instruments contingent. This guy built a giant bass banjo. In fact, for a whole whack of fun and wild instruments check out the gallery of www.oddmusic.com. This one looks like a metal horn of plenty spewing forth musical goodness. Speaking of the horn of plenty, ever wonder what vegetables sound like? Look no further the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. They play instruments carved from all manners of veggy goodness. The Harpejji is apparently what happens when you smoosh a piano and a guitar together. And this is what happens when you mix a Hurdy-Gurdy with Furbies. Maybe some instruments just shouldn’t be made, but how fun would the music world be if no one tried to do weird and wonderful things.